Mir does not work in vmware virtual machine due to drm open failure
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mir |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Alexandros Frantzis |
Bug Description
Installed Ubuntu 12.10 in VMWare virtual machine. Installed all the required dependencies (as mentioned in the HACKING.md) and compiled Mir code. Followed step 1 to step 7 in section "Running Mir" of the HACKING.md file. Mir did not run correctly while running the command "(sleep 5; ./mir_demo_
This prevents many users from testing and contributing to Mir code. If Mir runs in VMWare then the number of people contributing (as code or bug or documentation etc) will increase drastically.
Note:
VMWare has open source graphics stack and it is based on KMS / DRM and is available in mainline linux kernel tree.
Changed in mir: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in mir: | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
This is a duplicate of bug 1118903 right now, because it's about Mir working at all under VMware.
The issue of VMware-specific acceleration, should we ever want to support it, should be discussed elsewhere.